METHOD FOR IMPLEMENTING DISK ARRAY, AND METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR READING OR WRITING DATA

• US 20120265935A1
• Filed: 06/29/2012
• Published: 10/18/2012
• Est. Priority Date: 12/29/2009
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Huawei Digital Technologies (Cheng Du) Co. Ltd (Huawei Investment & Holding Co., Ltd.)
• Original Assignee: Huawei Technologies Co., Ltd. (Huawei Investment & Holding Co., Ltd.)
• Inventors: LUO, Jiaolin
• Application Number:
  US13/538,729
• Publication Number:
  US 20120265935A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 711/114
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 11/3034 where the computing system component is a storage system, e.g. DASD based or network based digital input from or digital output to record carriers G06F3/06; digital recording or reproducing G11B20/18; for distributed storage of data in networks, e.g. transport arrangements for network file system [NFS], storage area networks [SAN] or network attached storage [NAS], H04L67/1097
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 11/3051 Monitoring arrangements for monitoring the configuration of the computing system or of the computing system component, e.g. monitoring the presence of processing resources, peripherals, I/O links, software programs verification or detection of system hardware configuration G06F11/2247
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/0607 by facilitating the process of upgrading existing storage systems, e.g. for improving compatibility between host and storage device
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/061 Improving I/O performance
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/064 Management of blocks
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/0665 at area level, e.g. provisioning of virtual or logical volumes
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/067 Distributed or networked storage systems, e.g. storage area networks [SAN], network attached storage [NAS]
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/0689 Disk arrays, e.g. RAID, JBOD

Abstract

A method for implementing a disk array, and a method and apparatus for reading or writing data are provided in embodiments of the present invention. The method includes: creating logical partition regions, where each logical partition region corresponds to one controller in one controller group; recording a mapping relationship between the logical partition regions and the controllers in a controller mapping table; and allocating, chunklets for the logical partition regions from a physical disk that is managed by a controller in a controller group that is corresponding to each logical partition region, and recording a mapping relationship between the logical partition regions and the chunklets in a chunklet mapping table. In the present invention, a chunklet in a physical disk that is managed by a controller in the same controller group is set to corresponding to each logical partition region, so that an expansion operation is completed easily.

Claims

1. A method for implementing a disk array, comprising:

creating logical partition regions according to the number of controllers in a controller group, wherein each logical partition region corresponds to one controller in one controller group;

recording a mapping relationship between the logical partition regions and the controllers in a controller mapping table;

allocating, according to a set disk selection policy, chunklets for the logical partition regions from a physical disk that is managed by a controller in a controller group that is corresponding to each logical partition region, and recording a mapping relationship between the logical partition regions and the chunklets in a chunklet mapping table;

when identifying that the number of controller groups which are mounted with the physical disk changes re-dividing logical partition regions according to the current number of controllers in the controller group, wherein each logical partition region corresponds to one controller in one controller group;

updating a mapping relationship between a virtual volume and a logical partition region in a logical partition region mapping table; and

allocating, according to the set disk selection policy chunklets for the logical partition regions from a physical disk that is managed by a controller in a controller group that is corresponding to each logical partition region, and recording a mapping relationship between the logical partition regions and the chunklets in the chunklet mapping table.

3. The method according to claim 1, further comprising:

when identifying that the number of physical disks that are managed by a controller group changes, allocating, according to the set disk selection policy, in physical disks that are currently managed by controllers in the controller group, chunklets for the logical partition regions that are corresponding to the controllers in the controller group, and update the mapping relationship between the logical partition regions and the chunklets in the chunklet mapping table.

4. The method according to claim 1, further comprising:

when receiving a value-added feature deployment request, identifying a logical partition region specified by the value-added feature deployment request; and

deploying a value-added feature program in the identified logical partition region according to the value-added feature deployment request, wherein the value-added feature program comprises a thin provisioning program, or a snapshot program, or a data deduplication program.

2. (canceled)

5. An apparatus for implementing a disk array, comprising:

a logical partition region dividing module, configured to create logical partition regions according to the number of controllers in a controller group, wherein each logical partition region corresponds to one controller in one controller group, and further configured to trigger a second mapping relationship recording module and a disk selecting module;

the second mapping relationship recording module, configured to record a mapping relationship between the logical partition regions and the controllers in a controller mapping table;

the disk selecting module, configured to allocate, according to a set disk selection policy, chunklets for the logical partition regions from a physical disk that is managed by a controller in a controller group that is corresponding to each logical partition region, and record a mapping relationship between the logical partition regions and the chunklets in a chunklet mapping table;

a module for monitoring the number of controllers, configured to trigger the logical partition region dividing module when identifying that the number of controller groups that are mounted with a physical disk changes.

7. The apparatus according to claim 5, further comprising:

a module for monitoring the number of physical disks, configured to;

when identifying that the number of physical disks that are managed by a controller group changes, trigger the disk selecting module for the controller group in which the number of physical disks changes.

8. The apparatus according to claim 5, further comprising:

a value-added feature receiving module, configured to;

when receiving a value-added feature deployment request, identify a logical partition region specified by the value-added feature deployment request; and

a value-added feature deploying module, configured to deploy a value-added feature program in the identified logical partition region according to the value-added feature deployment request, wherein the value-added feature program comprises a thin provisioning program, a snapshot program, and/or a data deduplication program.

6. (canceled)

9. An apparatus for reading or writing data on a disk array, comprising:

a logical partition region querying module, configured to;

when receiving a request for reading or writing data on a disk array, query a logical partition region mapping table for a logical partition region that is corresponding to a virtual address to which the request for reading or writing data is directed in a virtual volume;

a controller querying module, configured to query a controller mapping table to determine a controller that is corresponding to the logical partition region;

a chunklet querying module, configured to query a chunklet mapping table of the queried and determined controller for a chunklet that is corresponding to the virtual address to which the request for reading or writing data is directed, wherein each logical partition region corresponds to one controller in one controller group, when identifying that the number of controller groups which are mounted with the physical disk changes, re-dividing logical partition regions according to the current number of controllers in the controller group, and each logical partition region corresponds to a chunklet in physical disk that is managed by a controller in a corresponding controller group, after the chunklet for the logical partition regions from a physical disk that is managed by a controller in a controller group that is corresponding to each logical partition region was allocated according to the set disk selection policy and a mapping relationship between the logical partition regions and the chunklets in the chunklet mapping table was recorded; and

a data reading or writing module, configured to perform a data reading or writing operation on the queried and determined chunklet.

10. A method for reading or writing data on a disk array, comprising:

querying a logical partition region mapping table for a logical partition region that is corresponding to a virtual address to which a request for reading or writing data is directed in a virtual volume, when receiving the request for reading or writing data on a disk array;

querying a controller mapping table to determine a controller that is corresponding to the logical partition region;

querying a chunklet mapping table of the queried and determined controller for a chunklet that is corresponding to the virtual address to which the request for reading or writing data is directed, wherein each logical partition region corresponds to one controller in one controller group, when identifying that the number of controller groups which are mounted with the physical disk changes, re-dividing logical partition regions according to the current number of controllers in the controller group, and each logical partition region corresponds to a chunklet in physical disk that is managed by a controller in a corresponding controller group, after the chunklet for the logical partition regions from a physical disk that is managed by a controller in a controller group that is corresponding to each logical partition region was allocated according to the set disk selection policy and a mapping relationship between the logical partition regions and the chunklets in the chunklet mapping table was recorded; and

performing a data reading or writing operation on the queried and determined chunklet.